Movie | Finland | 03/01/2002 | Drama | Social Issues
The second part of Aki Kaurismäkis \Finland\ trilogy, the film follows a man who arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember his name or anything from his past life, he cannot get a job or an apartment, so he starts living on the outskirts of the city and slowly starts putting his life back on track.
Movie | Spain | 03/19/2004 | Drama | Social Issues
Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.
Movie | United Kingdom | 09/03/2004 | Drama | Social Issues
In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead.
Movie | Belgium | 02/13/2007 | Drama | Social Issues
Marianne Faithfull plays Maggie, a quiet retiring grandmother who finds herself helpless as her grandson’s health deteriorates. When one last chance appears, but money is desperately short, Maggie acts to raise the cash in a fashion that surprises everyone but her...
Movie | Slovakia | 11/14/2003 | Drama | Social Issues
Two amateur circus kids from a poor Ukrainian village, ten-year-old Barbu and his older sister Mimma, are sold to a circus artist called Caruso who promises them a career in the West.
Movie | Serbia | 05/14/2004 | Drama | Social Issues
Set during the Bosnian war in the early 1990s, Luka is a mild-mannered railway clerk whose life is turned upside down, not just by the outbreak of the war, but when his wife runs off with a local musician. Then Luka's son is conscripted and eventually captured in the fighting. To recover his son, Luka is commanded to guard a pretty young Muslim nurse who will be used in a hostage swapping operation.
Movie | France | 09/24/2008 | Drama | Social Issues
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.
Movie | Germany | 11/24/2004 | Drama | Social Issues
Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.
Movie | Czech Republic | 10/27/2011 | Drama | Social Issues
Movie | United Kingdom | 09/23/2005 | Drama | Social Issues
Oliver Twist the modern filmed version of Charles Dickens bestseller, a Roman Polanski adaptation. The classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
Movie | Czech Republic | 09/20/2012 | Drama | Social Issues
Movie | Germany | 06/28/2011 | Drama | Social Issues
Marisa, a 20-year-old German girl, hates foreigners, Jews, cops, and everyone she finds guilty for the decline of her country. She provokes, drinks, fights and her next tattoo will be a portrait of Adolf Hitler. The only place she feels home is the Neo-Nazi gang she belongs to, where hate, violence, and heavy parties are the daily rules. When 14-year-old Svenja joins the group, Marisa appears like a role model to her: she fits the purest idea of a combat girl fighting for the group's ideology. But Marisa's convictions will slowly evolve when she accidentally meets a young Afghan refugee. Confronted to him, she will learn that the black and white principles of her gang are not the only way. Will Marisa ever be able to get out of this group?
Movie | Czech Republic | 10/28/2010 | Drama | Social Issues
The story of a practical education environment without superficiality, clichés and affectations. The film is based on a real basis and shows what happens when the system fails. Set in the harsh environment of elementary school. The group of local students - young thugs are accused of rape and murder of a young trainee. Still have not been sentenced yet and still attend school. Until it starts young teacher, who had his unorthodox approach gains the sympathy of other cantors and students. For what purpose, however, really came to school, find out until the end of the story.
Movie | France | 05/17/2011 | Drama | Social Issues
Marcel Marx, a former bohemian and struggling author, has given up his literary ambitions and relocated to the port city Le Havre. He leads a simple life based around his wife Arletty, his favourite bar and his not too profitable profession as a shoeshiner. As Arletty suddenly becomes seriously ill, Marcels path crosses with an underage illegal immigrant from Africa, who needs Marcels help to hide from the police.
Movie | Germany | 10/11/2002 | Drama | Social Issues
A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
Movie | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 01/01/2006 | Drama | Social Issues
A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.. The film won the award for Best Film at the 2006 Berlin Film.
Movie | South Korea | 09/22/2011 | Drama | Social Issues
Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.
Movie | Albania | 07/19/2004 | Drama | Social Issues
As Macedonia faces its difficult transition, a boy escapes into a world of his own creation.
Movie | United States | 11/13/2009 | Drama | Social Issues
Will Montgomery (Ben Foster), a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Montgomery is partnered with Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson), to give notice to the families of fallen soldiers. The Sergeant is drawn to Olivia Pitterson (Samantha Morton), to whom he has delivered news of her husband’s death.
Movie | Sweden | 05/15/2011 | Drama | Social Issues
In central Gothenburg, Sweden, a group of boys, aged 12-14, robbed other children on about 40 occasions between 2006 and 2008. The thieves used an elaborate scheme called the 'little brother number' or 'brother trick', involving advanced role-play and gang rhetoric rather than physical violence.
Movie | Poland | 09/14/2005 | Drama | Social Issues
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Movie | Kenya | 01/01/2010 | Drama | Social Issues
Abila (14) lives in one of the most miserable slums in Africa. His girlfriend Shiku belongs to a different tribe, as the result of which he is not really allowed to fraternize with her. And then one drunken night his father gambles away his own soul.
Movie | Nigeria | 04/01/2010 | Drama | Social Issues
Anya's dream turned into a nightmare when she was accused of killing 3 men. For her to regain her freedom she had to share her secret with world. With help of her sister Chioma and an inexperienced attorney Ijé tells the story in a riveting way with an unexpected climatic ending. It's a story that conveys the fusion of the African culture with the American culture in a court room like no other.
Movie | Netherlands | 10/13/2012 | Drama | Social Issues
Lilet Never Happened is the rollercoaster story of how a young girl, struggling to survive in the streets of Manila, spirals down into child prostitution. She is a fighter. She is a dreamer. She is a rebel and she thinks she can handle the world with her wits. But she has to face up to reality when she runs out of innocent dreams.
Movie | Sweden | 03/12/2010 | Drama | Social Issues
Duct tape, electrical cables, trigger, explosives. Sebbe never planned to build a bomb. It just happened. Sebbe is 15 years old and lives with his mother in an apartment that is too narrow. He does his best. He never strikes back. Sebbe loves his mother because he knows nothing else. In the junkyard the dream is alive, and in the hands of Sebbe, dead objects come to life. Here he has the power to create. Here he is free - but alone. His isolation grows as his world shrinks, until one day he is completely isolated with no other than his mother. And when she falls, everything falls.
Movie | Egypt | 10/18/2012 | Drama | Social Issues
One day in the life of Soad, who lives with her mother and bed-ridden father on the outskirts of Cairo.
Movie | Palestine | 02/01/2009 | Drama | Social Issues
A free spirited woman dancer, Kamar, finds herself the lonely wife of a prisoner, Zaid, and away from everything she loves until she returns to the dance, defying societys taboos. At the dance Kamar is confronted with Kais, a Palestinian returnee. Sparks fly between Kamar and Kais, creating more than a passionate, emotional dance for the both of them. Matters become even more complicated when Zaid's sentence is extended. Kamar's life is thrown into turmoil as she becomes increasingly attached to Kais, and caught in the midst of her desire to dance and breaking the family and society taboos of the prisoner's wife's role while life under occupation rages on.
Movie | Spain | 04/29/2011 | Drama | Social Issues
A single mother of a leukemia-stricken child is redeemed by the titular positive force in Paco Torres' intriguing debut, The Magic of Hope. Starting out as a po-faced tale of endurance, pic develops into a convincing, quietly affirmative fable about the transformative power of human goodness. Featuring a searching central performance from Patricia Garcia Mendez and employing a distinctive mix of grit and lyricism working in mutually beneficial counterpoint, pic is far from perfect, but its seriousness of purpose and undertow of emotional truth could be met with applause by fest auds.
Movie | Kenya | 07/01/2010 | Drama | Social Issues
The story of two brothers who travel to Nairobi to find work
